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> In some EU countries, like Austria for example, there are royalties to pay on non-volatile storage memory[1] In France it's the same but with an even more in
by realusername 3y ago
> In some EU countries, like Austria for example, there are royalties to pay on non-volatile storage memory[1]
In France it's the same but with an even more insane version. The tax is so high that it's skewing the EU average and you have to take France out of the data.
As an example, taxes on mobile phones are at 14EUR for a phone with a drive greater than 64GB (so most of them nowadays)
- Rinzler89 3y agoI notice Austria an France seem to have a lot of such dumb taxes in common. I guess it must be to feed those generous welfare systems. But these taxes are basically robbing Peter to pay ... Peter.
- realusername 3y agoThat's the idea yeah, the economic strategy in France is very simple: if it works then tax it, it if doesn't work then give more subsidies. That's a terrible long term strategy because the good companies are subsidizing failing ones, destroying the reward function of the market. The second terrible side effect to this policy is that the subsidies system is too complex for small companies to handle so the small companies have an increased failure rate compared to a normal economy.